In this illuminating episode, Dr. Karlfeldt sits down with Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW—an international authority on dreams, nightmares, trauma, and intergenerational healing. As the author of Ancestral Dreaming: Heal Generational Wounds through Dreamwork and a Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Linda has spent more than 40 years pioneering innovative approaches to dream interpretation, trauma integration, and psycho-spiritual healing. Her work bridges psychotherapy, neurobiology, embodied therapies, and ancient wisdom traditions, offering listeners a doorway into the transformative power of dreamwork.
Across the conversation, Linda reveals how dreams serve as a direct portal into the deepest layers of our personal, ancestral, and collective stories. She explains how epigenetics, inherited trauma, and symbolic dreaming intersect, and why unexplained anxiety, emotional patterns, or persistent struggles may not originate in our lived experiences, but from generations before us. Drawing from her decades of clinical practice and her extensive background in dream studies, Linda guides us through the process of incubating dreams, decoding symbols, working with multi-layered meaning, and using dream states—and dream-adjacent states—to heal trauma that spans time, lineage, and consciousness.
Listeners will also hear profound insights about the Tree of Life, Kabbalistic frameworks, the multi-tiered structure of dream layers, synchronicity, and the extraordinary ability of dreams to reshape both psychological and physiological patterns. Whether you are curious about your own dreams, seeking healing from intergenerational wounds, or simply fascinated by the mysteries of consciousness, this episode offers deep wisdom and practical pathways for tapping into the unconscious intelligence of the soul.
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